Hong Kong's Pro-Beijing Groups March to Oppose Occupy Central

Support for Civil Disobedience in Hong Kong Begins to Wane

By

Edward Ngai

Updated Aug. 18, 2014 7:15 a.m. ET

HONG KONG—Pro-Beijing groups in Hong Kong mobilized thousands in a march to oppose Occupy Central, a democratic group that has threatened mass civil disobedience if China doesn't offer the city a real choice in the next election for its leader.

The counter-rally, dubbed a "march for peace," was meant to overshadow this year's July 1...